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frochevy
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While I was playing awhile back I found a weak point on my blade. I was repairing a small pond dam area at my father in laws and hit the corner of a large locusts tree with the tip of the blade while the clutch was locked in first gear. I heard a loud pop! The ear that attaches to the angle cylinder gave way. The pictures show why this was the weak point... lol I haven't had time to post pics. I repaired it a couple of weeks ago and I'm finally getting time to share. While the D2 is in my garage I'm working on some other parts of it including rear weight to offset the blade weight and working on a new seat as well.



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Fri, Apr 28, 2017 9:41 AM
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Pics of during and after repair... hopefully this will hold... please don't give me too hard of a time on my welds... It's been 10 years since I've been a production welder. Lol

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Fri, Apr 28, 2017 9:46 AM
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Reply to frochevy:
Pics of during and after repair... hopefully this will hold... please don't give me too hard of a time on my welds... It's been 10 years since I've been a production welder. Lol

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WOw. That is a great repair, especially with what you had to start with. Thanks. Roy
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Fri, Apr 28, 2017 9:56 AM
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WOw. That is a great repair, especially with what you had to start with. Thanks. Roy
Nice fix. I really like the hydraulic retro fit to control the angle blade.
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Fri, Apr 28, 2017 11:37 AM
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Nice fix. I really like the hydraulic retro fit to control the angle blade.
Got any photo's of how the angle cylinder is setup?
Cool looking unit!
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Fri, Apr 28, 2017 6:35 PM
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Got any photo's of how the angle cylinder is setup?
Cool looking unit!
That's a good looking tractor and the repair makes me think you know a thing or two about welding
I would also be interested in seeing more pictures of the tilt/angle hydraulic also
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Fri, Apr 28, 2017 8:34 PM
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That's a good looking tractor and the repair makes me think you know a thing or two about welding
I would also be interested in seeing more pictures of the tilt/angle hydraulic also
As Archie, a long deceased old time local welder of Finnish descent would say in his Finnish brogue. "Dat's not weld, dat broken spot looks like a pigeon sh*t there while flying into the wind".
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Sat, Apr 29, 2017 5:15 AM
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As Archie, a long deceased old time local welder of Finnish descent would say in his Finnish brogue. "Dat's not weld, dat broken spot looks like a pigeon sh*t there while flying into the wind".
good looking repair frochevy.
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Sun, Apr 30, 2017 10:22 AM
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good looking repair frochevy.
Thank you for all the compliments. I will get some pictures loaded soon of how the blade angles/tilts.
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Wed, May 3, 2017 12:11 AM
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Thank you for all the compliments. I will get some pictures loaded soon of how the blade angles/tilts.
That's a neat repair!

Over here in South Africa, in the local Afrikaans language( a derivative of Dutch), I always heard the older folk refer to welding as 'brand', the same word used for 'burn' (from the concept of 'burning together' two pieces of steel)

We also had the term 'swallows nests' for the examples of the previous welding on your blade.

So, no sir, yer ain't no swallows nest builder. Yer's a dem good welder!
Somerset West, Cape Town
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Wed, May 3, 2017 2:44 PM
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